Dear all,
There are a few resources I've been putting together for Sanskrit students and teachers that I thought might be useful for the List to know about.
-- My Reader still hasn't come out (it will in November!), but the online flashcards for the 900-word study vocab list are available on
Brainscape. To access them all for free, students need to open a (free) Brainscape account and then click on this code:
https://www.brainscape.com/p/16X72-LH-AIRCF (The list is meant for beginning to intermediate students; it focuses on epic and narrative texts (so: the kinds of genres students would likely encounter early on), is split into two parts (ca. 450 very frequent words, ca. 450 frequent words), and was put together using the word frequency tool at
sanskritdictionary.com.) If anybody would like the pdf of the entire list, please simply email me.
-- A few days ago, the second episode of the
Sanskrit Studies Podcast went live. I started this podcast to introduce the breadth of scholarly work on Sanskrit in all its facets and applications to a wider public: precise and detailed, but always accessible, in the hopes that it will not only help us attract students to the field, but perhaps also give us a better idea what our colleagues further afield are doing. I hope you will agree that my first two interviewees, McComas Taylor and Dagmar Wujastyk, both introduce their work and interests splendidly!
-- The grammar posters I made to go with my intro textbook are now also finally
available online. (The bigger ones are *really* big, so I'd recommend those only for classrooms or offices.) In the past, my students have found them very helpful after about a term/semester or so of Intro Sanskrit.
All my best,
Antonia